River Ice Breakup

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• Steven Daly (United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE))
• Wednesday 06 December 2017, 09:00-10:00
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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SIPW04 - Ice fracture and cracks

Breakup transforms an ice-covered river into an open river. Two ideal forms of breakup bracket the types of breakup commonly found throughout most of the globe. At one extreme is thermal breakup. During an ideal thermal breakup, the river ice cover deteriorates and melts in place, with no increase in flow and little or no ice movement. At the other extreme is the more complex and less understood mechanical breakup (also referred to as a dynamic breakup). Mechanical breakup requires no deterioration of the ice cover, but rather results from an increase in flow entering the river. The increase in flow induces stresses in the cover, and the stresses in turn cause cracks and the ultimate fragmentation of the ice cover into pieces that are carried by the channel flow. Ice jams take place at locations where the ice fragments stop; severe and sudden hydraulic transients can result when these ice jams form or when they release. This presentation will focus on mechanical breakup and the historical evolution of our understanding of this topic. The presentation will include discussions of ice cover formation and the typical resulting ice structure, wave-ice interaction, the physics of the cracking, and the current status of our understanding of breakup.

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